A repeated sound, word, phrase, line, or group of lines.
What is refrain?
100
A play on the multiple meanings of a word or on two words that sounds alike but have different meaning.
What is a pun?
100
The way a writer reveals the personality of the character.
What is characterization?
100
The main character and the character who opposes him.
What are protagonist and antagonist?
100
A brief story told in prose or poetry that contains a moral, a practical lesson about how to get along in life.
What is a fable?
200
A line of poetry that contains five beats consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.
What is iambic pentameter?
200
A comparison between two unlike things, using words such as like, as, than, or resembles.
What is simile?
200
The reason a character behaves a certain way.
What is motivation?
200
The point in the story that creates the greatest suspense or interest.
What is the climax?
200
A contrast between expectations and reality.
What is irony?
300
A pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry.
What is meter?
300
A comparison made between two things to show how they are alike.
What is an analogy?
300
The three kinds of vantage points from which a story is told.
What is: Omniscient, third person,and first person point of view?
300
The repeated elements of a plot.
What is parallel episodes?
300
Agun found in a bureau drawer in Act One of a drama may __________violence later on in the play.
What is foreshadowing?
400
A group of consecutive lines in a poem that form a single unit.
What is stanza?
400
Different words that mean the same thing.
What is a synonym?
400
Squeaky in "Raymond's Run"(pg. 547) is this kind of character.
What is dynamic character?
400
A minor plot that relates in some way to the main story.
What is subplot?
400
A reference to a statement, person, place, event fromliterature, the arts, history, religion,mythology, politics, sports, or science.
What is an allusion?
500
Major forms of poetry.
What are: epic, narrative, ode, ballad, sonnet, lyric, free verse.
500
An expression peculiar to a particular language that means something different fromthe literal meaning of the words.
What is an idiom?
500
Indirect characterization
What is a way writers reveal the personality of a chracter through:
words of the character
description
characters thoughts and feeling
comments madeby others about the character
characters behavior
500
the main parts of a plot.
What areintroduction, complications, climax, and resolution?
500
Literary devices.
What are allusion, analogy, dialect, exaggeration, figures of speech, imagery, irony, repetition, symbolism, and understatement.